PROPOSITIONS -- Measure to repeal segregation-era language from constitution drew anti-tax foes because it also would remove phrasing that says there is no right to an education at public expense. Opponents fear courts would then order state to allocate more money for public schools.

SENATE -- Republican Mel Martinez and Democrat Betty Castor in a close one to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Bob Graham. Martinez would be state's first Hispanic senator, Castor its second female senator.

HOUSE -- 18R, 7D. Republican Rep. Katherine Harris, vilified by Democrats while she served as secretary of state during 2000 recount, won in rematch with Sarasota attorney Jan Schneider. Republican Connie Mack IV, son of ex-senator, took seat given up by new CIA director Porter Goss.

PROPOSITIONS -- Voters approved a $1-an-hour hike in the state minimum wage and approved an initiative to limit privacy rights of girls under age 18, so that law could be changed to require parental notice if minors seek abortions.

EXIT POLL -- More than half thought country was safer from terrorism now than it was four years ago.

HOUSE -- 8R, 5D. National parties each took aim at one incumbent -- Republicans sought to dislodge Jim Marshall, Democrats targeted Max Burns. Cynthia McKinney, controversial former congresswoman beaten by Majette two years ago, making triumphant return.

PROPOSITIONS -- Overwhelming approval for ban on gay marriages that also prohibits legal recognition of civil unions and declares courts would have no jurisdiction to settle property division disputes arising from same-sex unions.

HOUSE -- Current, 4R, 2D; new 5R, 1D. Republicans picked up a seat in conservative northern district where businessman Geoff Davis bested Democrat Nick Clooney, former TV anchorman and father of actor George Clooney, to succeed retiring Democrat Ken Lucas.

OTHER -- Former Gov. Julian Carroll, a Democrat, resurrected his political career, capturing a Frankfort-area state Senate seat with a drubbing of Republican Harold Fletcher, older brother of the current governor.

EXIT POLL -- The state has roughly as many Democrats as Republicans, but about a quarter of Democrats crossed party lines to support Bush.

EXIT POLL -- In a state with 4,000 soldiers who have served in Iraq or are preparing to deploy overseas, Bush supporters overwhelmingly backed the president's decision to go to war while Kerry voters opposed it.

North Carolina

PRESIDENT (15) -- Bush triumphed.

SENATE -- Rep. Richard Burr and former Clinton aide Erskine Bowles neck-and-neck for John Edwards' old seat, after Republican closed a Bowles lead with onslaught of television ads.

GOVERNOR -- Incumbent Mike Easley won a second term, defeating GOP challenger Patrick Ballantine with a campaign focused on job losses in the textile and furniture industries.